Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study FRIDAY 8:00 AM — 9:30 AM Annual Meeting 2013 in San Francisco, California May 2-4, 2013 SESSION 1.1 COLUMBUS I STREAM 1: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN NORDIC HISTORY The Department of Scandinavian at University of California, Berkeley welcomes the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study to San Pious Transformations: Francisco for its 103rd annual meeting to be held at the San Francisco Scandinavian Responses to New Religious Situations Hilton/Financial District Hotel. Moderator: Jason Lavery (Oklahoma State University) ! Riikka Miettinen (University of Tampere): “Religious Crises and Wednesday, May 1 Unorthodox Views among Swedish and Finnish Suicides during the 17th Century” 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Tenure Workshop Dinner 750 RESTAURANT ! Øystein Lydik Idsø Viken (University of Oslo): “Preaching as 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Tenure Workshop I DAVIS Government in 18th-century Norway” ! Sara E. Ellis Nilsson (University of Gothenburg): “Making Honest Thursday, May 2 Saints Out of Them: Clerical Responses to New Saints in Scandinavia” ! 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Tenure Workshop II DAVIS Johannes Ljungberg (Lund University): “The Pietist Threat as a Case Study on the Concept of Unity in Sweden 1700-1730” 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Registration BALLROOM FOYER 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Book Display FRONT SESSION 1.2 COLUMBUS II Autobiography I 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM SASS Executive Council Meeting JACKSON 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM SHS Executive Committee Meeting JACKSON Moderator: Mary Kay Norseng (UCLA) 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM ISA Council Meeting DAVIS ! Joseph Kellner (UC Berkeley): “Potpourri Russe: Santeri Nuorteva and the Embassy of the International Revolution” 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Opening Plenary Lecture BALLROOM ! Margaretha Fahlgren (Uppsala University): “Fear and Love: Hon. Consul General of Sweden Masculinity and Emotion in Politicians’ Autobiographies” Barbro Osher ! Jenna Coughlin (UC Berkeley): “Back to Nature Again: Thor Heyerdahl’s Changing Self-Representation” 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Opening Reception BALLROOM FOYER SESSION 1.3 COLUMBUS III Friday, May 3 STREAM 2: SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION Production, Marketing, and Visual Media 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Book Display FRONT Moderator: Kerstin Bergman (Lund University) ! Olof Hedling (Lund University): “Paradoxical Production Cultures: A Tale of Two Films Based on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” ! Karl Berglund (Uppsala University): “Covering Crime: The Making and Marketing of Swedish Crime Fiction through Book Covers” ! Louise Nilsson (Uppsala University): “Marketing Scandivicious. The Making of Swedish Crime Novels as World Literature” 1 2 SESSION 1.4 PINE ! Ulf Olsson (Stockholm University): “The Occult Body: STREAM 3: THE NORTH ATLANTIC Hermeneutics in Strindberg’s Occult Diary” FLASH PANEL SESSION 1.7 WASHINGTON Moderator: Ebbe Volquardsen, (Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen) STREAM 4: LANGUAGE IDENTITY/PEDAGOGY ! Kirsten Thisted (University of Copenhagen): “Denmark and the New Dialects, Diversity, and Varieties of Language Nordic North” ! Birgit Kleist Pedersen (University of Greenland): “Negotiations on Moderator: Veronica Lundback (University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee) the Concept of ‘Cultural Identity’ in a Time of Fermentation in ! Nina Møller Andersen (University of Copenhagen): “Heteroglossia, Greenland” Polyphony and Linguistic Diversity in Urban Youth Style” ! Malan Marnersdóttir (University of the Faroe Islands): “The ! Marin Skjekkeland (University of Agder): “Two Written Standards in Collective Identity in William Heinesen’s Work” Norway – Two Identities? – A Historic Explanation” ! Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo): “When Worlds Collide: The ! Nichola Smalley (University College London): “Extraordinary North Atlantic in Johan Harstad’s Buzz Aldrin” Everyday Language: Surveying Translators’ Approaches to Slang and ! Bergur Rønne Moberg (University of Copenhagen): “North Atlantic Contemporary Vernaculars in Contemporary Literature” Placemaking: Waterscapes in Faroese Literature” ! Mikko Taurama & Henriikka Rönkkönen (Indiana University, Bloomington): “F-bombs and A-plusses: Touching on Taboos in SESSION 1.5 MASON I Language Instruction” Stig Dagerman in English: New Beginnings SESSION 1.8 MONTGOMERY Old Norse I Moderator: Amanda Doxtater (University of Oregon) ! Steven Hartman (KTH Stockholm): “Challenges of Translating Moderator: Elisabeth Ward (UC Berkeley) Dagerman: Short Fiction, Poetry and the Essay (especially Our Need ! Pernille Hermann (University of Aarhus): “Sagas and Memory: “The for Consolation)” Reception of Artificial Memory in the ‘Íslendingasögur’” ! Benjamin Mier-Cruz: (UC Berkeley): “Translating the Novel Bränt ! Chip Robinson (UCLA): “Magical Realism in Medieval Icelandic Barn” and Contemporary South American Literature” ! Lo Dagerman (Independent): “Short Film: Our Need for Consolation ! Verena Hoefig (University of California, Berkeley): “Challenging the (2012), Based on Dagerman’s Text” Landnám” ! Nahir I. Otaño Gracia (University of Pennsylvania): “Translating SESSION 1.6 MASON II Arthur: Ívens saga and Möttuls saga in a Scandinavian Context” Dystopias and Surrealism SESSION 1.9 DAVIS Moderator: Anders Ehlers Dam (University of Copenhagen) Poetry I ! Rose-Marie G. Oster (University of Maryland): “Karin Boye’s Kallocain and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: A Comparison between Moderator: Kjerstin Moody (Gustavus Adolphus College) Two Pre-World War II Dystopic Novels” ! Yuko Ishino (Kanazawa University): “The Birth and the Transition of ! Lieven Ameel (University of Helsinki): “Re-reading Mika Waltari’s Greater Finland: Focused on the Interpretations of the Epic Poetry in Suuri illusioni (1928): Modernist Traces in a Finnish Cult Novel of Kalevala” the 1920s” ! Bjarne Markussen (University of Agder): “The Rhetoric of Comfort: ! Mimi Nielsen (University Washington): “Surrealism and Karin Henrik Wergeland’s Svalen (1841)” Boye’s Place in Swedish Literary History” 3 4 ! Neal Ashley Conrad Thing (Lund University): “The Force of ! Colin Gioia Connors (University of Wisconsin): “ePublishing in the Paradox—Interdisciplinary Approaches to Paradoxes in the Poetry Saga: Exploring Medieval Oral Traditions with Digital Means” of Gunnar Ekelöf” ! Nicholas Thély (University of Rennes II) & Fredrik Palm (Umeå ! Louise Mønster (Aalborg University): “The Sense of Place in the University): “Transparency and Visualization in Text Mining – A Poetry of Thomas Tranströmer and Henrik Nordbrandt” Case Study of Connected Connect Analysis with Textometrica” ! Christian-Emil Ore (University of Oslo): “Linked Data and Source SESSION 1.10 JACKSON Text Collections—A Norwegian Example” STREAM 5: THE AUTHOR Autobiographical Acts 9:30 AM — 9:45 AM Brief coffee break Moderator: Claus Elholm Andersen (University of Helsinki) ! Renessa Osterberg Jessup (Minnesota State University): FRIDAY 9:45 AM — 11:15 AM “Performative Autobiography in Contemporary Norwegian Fiction” ! Anne Berit Lyngstad (NTNU Trondheim): “Autobiographical Acts and the Contemporary Scandinavian Author” SESSION 2.1 COLUMBUS I ! Espen E. Børdahl (Johan Wolfgang Goethe University): “Enthusiasms, STREAM 1: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN NORDIC HISTORY Outrage, and Indifference: Aspects of the Reception of Karl Ove Early Modern History Revisited Knausgård’s Min kamp in Scandinavia and Germany” ! Jon Helt Haarder (University of Southern Denmark): “Flashing Moderator: Heli Valtonen (University of Jyväskylä) Fictionality: Authenticity and Artificiality in Karl Ove Knausgård’s ! Jason Lavery (Oklahoma State University): "A Reformation in My Struggle” Reverse? Finland during the reign of Gustav Vasa (1521-1560)" ! David Jessup (University of Washington): “Henric Schartau and the SESSION 1.11 BALLROOM Faith of the Marchlands” The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era ! Marko Hakanen (University of Jyväskylä) and Ulla Koskinen in Scandinavia: Upheaval, Transformation, (University of Tampere): “Keeping up Appearances: Displays of and Remembrance, 1800–1814, I Noble Power in Early Modern Sweden” Moderator: Lynn Wilkinson (University of Texas) SESSION 2.2 COLUMBUS II ! Norbert Götz (Södertörn University): “The Good Plumpuddings’ Autobiography II Belief: British Humanitarian and Medical Assistance to Sweden During the Napoleonic Wars” Moderator: Margaretha Fahlgren (Uppsala University) ! Kristina Fjelkestam (Linköping University): “Literature and ! Kristoffer Jul-Larsen (NTNU): “The Sound of a New Author: Revolution: Germanine de Staël in Sweden” Discussing Modernism, Presenting Self” ! Lone Kølle Martinsen (University of Southern Denmark): ! Michelle Facos (Indiana University): “Emma Lamm Zorn: “Scandinavia and Her Romantic Writers: How Romanticism is Philanthropist, Ethnographer, Woman, Jew” Connected to Political History” ! Peter Henning (Lund University): “Henriette Sophie Widerberg and the Autobiographical Underground of the Swedish 1800s” SESSION 1.12 SANSOME ! Nina Ernst (Lund University): “Me, Myself and I. The Use of Metafictional Strategies in Autobiographical Swedish Comics” STREAM 6: DIGITAL HUMANITIES Moderator: Oddrun Grønvik (University of Oslo) ! Kari Lie (St. Olaf College): “Lessons Learned from Exploration of Digital Humanities in Norwegian” 5 6 SESSION 2.3 COLUMBUS III ! Peter Leonard (Yale University): “Multiethnic Centers & Suburban STREAM 2: SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION Peripheries: Visualizing the Geographies of Gringo” Character (Construction) and Gender ! Christopher Oscarson (Brigham Young University) and Peter Leonard (Yale University): “The Evolution of the Ecological Imaginary: Environmental Discourse in